4. The Nev Cole Way – The Far Ings to Whitton Ness

Leaving Barton and up onto the Humber Bridge with the Humber tide low exposing the shoreline and the path – the Nev Cole Way – we follow the Humber to Chowder Ness and beyond, to the New River Ancholme and South Ferriby, this chapter’s destination, Whitton Ness.

The Far Ings is a renowned bird watchers paradise but head west for cowslips in the spring, marsh harriers and deer in the gardens and reeds.

Photographs by Richard Duffy-Howard

Gallery key:

1. The Nev Cole Way from the Humber Bridge to Chowder Ness then on to South Ferriby Cement Works on the horizon to the left and Whitton Ness to the right
2. The Far Ings on a blustery day in August 2014
3. South Ferriby from North Ferriby
4. Draining the Marsh at South Cliff Farm
5. Shipwreck and beach at South Ferriby Cliff
6. The Nev Cole Way at South Ferriby Cliff and one of the old tin NCW signs that started it all
7. Lightship at South Ferriby Cliff as we leave the beach and the reeds to the buntings and deer
8. South Ferriby Haven
9. The New River Ancholme and lock at South Ferriby
10. The New River Ancholme makes the Humber at South Ferriby
11. The New River Ancholme and conveyor belt that takes the chalk from the wolds quarry above the B1204 to Horkstow and down to the old cement works
12. The old cement works on the Nev Cole Way at South Ferriby
13. The New River Ancholme makes the Humber from the Hope and Anchor
14. South Ferriby Haven and Weir Dyke
15. Winterton Beck at Winteringham Haven
16. Winteringham Haven
17. Halton Beck on the Nev Cole Way from Winteringham Haven to Whitton Ness
18. From Whitton Ness looking east across Pudding Pie Sand to the Humber Bridge